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Lin Carter (1930–1988)

Author of Conan

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Works by Lin Carter

Conan (1967) 1,072 copies, 11 reviews
Tolkien: A Look Behind the Lord of the Rings (1969) 956 copies, 4 reviews
Conan of Cimmeria (1969) 898 copies, 9 reviews
Conan the Wanderer (1968) 719 copies, 5 reviews
Conan of the Isles (1968) 588 copies, 5 reviews
Conan of Aquilonia (1977) 538 copies, 5 reviews
Conan the Swordsman (1978) 370 copies, 3 reviews
Conan the Liberator (1979) 342 copies, 3 reviews
Conan The Barbarian [film novelisation: 1982] (1982) 320 copies, 5 reviews
Flashing Swords! #1 (1974) — Editor; Contributor — 254 copies, 3 reviews
The wizard of Lemuria (1965) 248 copies, 5 reviews
Under the Green Star (1972) 222 copies, 4 reviews
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (1977) — Editor — 219 copies, 1 review
Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (1981) — Editor — 206 copies, 2 reviews
Flashing Swords! #2 (1973) 205 copies, 4 reviews
Jandar of Callisto (1972) — Author — 195 copies, 4 reviews
Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos (1972) 192 copies, 2 reviews
King Kull (1967) 190 copies, 3 reviews
When the Green Star Calls (1973) 184 copies, 4 reviews
Sky Pirates of Callisto (1973) — Author — 173 copies, 1 review
Imaginary Worlds (1973) 169 copies, 5 reviews
The Warrior of World's End (1974) 166 copies, 3 reviews
Black Legion of Callisto (1972) 165 copies, 2 reviews
Thongor Against the Gods (1967) 164 copies, 1 review
Thongor Fights the Pirates of Tarakus (1970) 153 copies, 1 review
Thongor in the city of magicians (1968) 147 copies, 1 review
By the light of the Green Star (1974) 145 copies, 4 reviews
The Young Magicians (1969) — Editor; Introduction; Contributor — 142 copies, 3 reviews
Thongor at the End of Time (1968) 139 copies, 2 reviews
Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards (1976) — Editor; Contributor — 137 copies, 2 reviews
Tower at the Edge of Time (1968) 134 copies
The Spawn Of Cthulhu (1971) — Editor; Contributor — 131 copies, 2 reviews
In the Green Stars Glow (1976) 130 copies, 3 reviews
Enchantress of World's End (1975) 128 copies, 1 review
The Xothic Legend Cycle (1997) 124 copies, 1 review
Discoveries in Fantasy (1972) — Editor — 124 copies, 1 review
The Immortal of World's End (1976) 124 copies, 1 review
As the Green Star rises (1975) 124 copies, 4 reviews
Thongor and the Dragon City (1970) 123 copies, 4 reviews
Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (1969) — Editor — 122 copies
The Man Who Loved Mars (1973) 121 copies, 3 reviews
Mind Wizards of Callisto (1975) — Author — 114 copies, 1 review
Lankar of Callisto (1975) — Author — 112 copies, 1 review
Beyond the Gates of Dream (1969) 108 copies
Mad Empress of Callisto (1975) — Author — 107 copies, 1 review
The Barbarian of World's End (1977) 106 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 3 (1977) — Editor; Contributor; Foreword — 104 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2 (1976) — Editor; Contributor; Preface — 101 copies
New Worlds for Old (1971) — Editor; Contributor — 101 copies, 1 review
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy (1972) — Editor — 100 copies, 1 review
Thongor of Lemuria (1966) 97 copies, 1 review
The pirate of World's End (1978) 92 copies, 1 review
Journey to the underground world (1979) 90 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 5 (1980) — Editor; Contributor; Contributor — 88 copies
Ylana of Callisto (1977) 87 copies, 1 review
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1980) — Editor, Contributor — 86 copies
The Black Star (1973) 85 copies, 2 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 4 (1978) — Editor; Contributor; Contributor — 83 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 6 (1980) — Editor; Contributor; Contributor — 83 copies, 1 review
Golden Cities, Far (1970) — Editor; Contributor — 82 copies
The Valley Where Time Stood Still (1974) 82 copies, 1 review
The Wizard of Zao (1978) 80 copies, 1 review
Renegade of Callisto (1978) 80 copies, 1 review
Time War (1974) 80 copies
The City Outside The World (1977) 79 copies, 1 review
Giant of World's End (1969) 78 copies, 1 review
Down to a Sunless Sea (1984) 75 copies
Hurok of the Stone Age (1981) 74 copies, 1 review
The Quest of Kadji (1971) 74 copies, 1 review
Dragonrouge (1984) 72 copies, 1 review
Zanthodon (1980) 69 copies, 1 review
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (1973) — Editor; Introduction — 69 copies
Kesrick (1982) 63 copies, 1 review
Weird Tales, No. 1 (1981) — Editor; Contributor — 61 copies
Invader On My Back & Destination Saturn (1967) — Author — 61 copies
The Nemesis of Evil (1975) 60 copies, 1 review
Lost World of Time (1969) 60 copies, 1 review
Darya of the Bronze Age (1981) 60 copies, 1 review
The Evil that Men Do / The Purloined Planet (1969) — Author — 59 copies, 1 review
Tower of the Medusa / Kar Kaballa (1969) — Author — 59 copies
Mandricardo (1987) 57 copies, 1 review
Lost Worlds (1980) 56 copies
Doomsman and The Thief of Thoth (1972) — Author — 55 copies, 1 review
Eric of Zanthodon (1982) 54 copies, 1 review
Dreams from R'lyeh (1975) 48 copies, 3 reviews
Outworlder (1971) 46 copies
The Volcano Ogre (1976) 42 copies
Invisible Death (1975) 41 copies
Weird Tales, No. 3 (1981) — Editor; Contributor — 40 copies
Callipygia (1988) 39 copies, 1 review
Star Rogue (1970) 38 copies
Found Wanting (1985) 38 copies, 2 reviews
The Magic of Atlantis (1970) — Editor; Contributor — 30 copies
Callisto Volume 1 (2000) 28 copies, 1 review
The Thief of Thoth / ...and Others Shall be Born (1968) — Contributor — 27 copies
Weird Tales, No. 2 (1981) — Editor; Contributor — 26 copies
Weird Tales, No. 4 (1983) — Editor; Contributor — 26 copies
Renegade Swords (2020) — Contributor — 24 copies
Tara of the Twilight (1979) 22 copies, 2 reviews
Realms of wizardry (1976) — Editor — 21 copies
Kingdoms of Sorcery: An Anthology of Adult Fantasy (1976) — Editor; Contributor — 21 copies
Tower of the Medusa (2011) 18 copies
The Earth-Shaker (1982) 15 copies
Young Thongor (2012) 13 copies
The Star Magicians (1966) 12 copies
Horror Wears Blue (1987) 11 copies
Destination: Saturn — Author — 8 copies
The Curse of the Monolith (1968) 7 copies
The Lair of the Ice Worm (1969) 5 copies
The City of Skulls (1967) 4 copies
The Gem in the Tower (1978) 4 copies
The Hand of Nergal (1967) 4 copies
The Thing In the Crypt (1967) 4 copies
The Castle of Terror (1969) 4 copies
The Thief of Thoth (1968) 4 copies
The Snout in the Dark (1969) 4 copies
The Purloined Planet (1969) 3 copies
Gefangen im Jenseits. Neue Fantasy-Storys. (1979) — Editor — 3 copies
Uncollected Works (1965) 3 copies
Flug der Zauberer (1973) — Editor; Preface — 3 copies
Die Zaubergärten (1969) — Editor; Foreword, some editions; Contributor — 2 copies
Černá legie z Kallistó (2002) 2 copies
A Letter To Judith: A Work Of Poetry (1959) 2 copies, 1 review
The Whelming Of Oom (1969) 2 copies
Keeper Of The Emerald Flame 2 copies, 1 review
Moon of Blood (1978) 2 copies
The Ivory Goddess (1978) 2 copies
The Star of Khorala (1978) 2 copies
Legions of the Dead (1978) 2 copies
Shadows in the Dark (1978) 2 copies
Die Treppe in der Gruft [Kurzgeschichte] (1976) — Author — 2 copies
Mnomquah 1 copy
BUSQUEDA DE KADJI (1900) 1 copy
Azlon 1 copy
Zingazar 1 copy
Vault Of Silence (1970) 1 copy
Conan, a kalóz (1995) 1 copy
Jandar z Kallistó (2001) 1 copy
Kämpfer wider den Tod (1975) — Preface — 1 copy

Associated Works

The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) — Introduction, some editions — 7,211 copies, 170 reviews
Phantastes (1858) — Introduction, some editions — 2,437 copies, 29 reviews
Lilith (1895) — Introduction, some editions — 1,831 copies, 16 reviews
The Broken Sword (1954) — Introduction, some editions — 1,483 copies, 36 reviews
Orlando Furioso (1516) — Introduction, some editions — 1,410 copies, 20 reviews
Vathek (1786) — Introduction, some editions — 1,325 copies, 43 reviews
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1970) — Introduction, some editions — 1,319 copies, 16 reviews
The Land That Time Forgot (1918) — Foreword, some editions — 1,060 copies, 31 reviews
The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories (1971) — Editor, some editions; Editor; Introduction, some editions — 1,050 copies, 9 reviews
The Wood Beyond the World (1892) — Introduction, some editions — 783 copies, 21 reviews
Red Moon and Black Mountain (1970) — Introduction, some editions — 655 copies, 12 reviews
Conan the Buccaneer (1971) — Introduction, some editions — 643 copies, 7 reviews
The People of the Mist (1894) — Introduction, some editions — 537 copies, 9 reviews
The Night Land (1912) — Introduction, some editions — 527 copies, 11 reviews
Star Guard (1955) — Profile, some editions — 507 copies, 9 reviews
Figures of Earth : A Comedy of Appearances (1921) — Introduction, some editions — 486 copies, 8 reviews
The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926) — Introduction, some editions — 412 copies, 5 reviews
The Three Impostors (1895) — Introduction, some editions — 406 copies, 5 reviews
The Well at the World's End: Volume I (1896) — Introduction, some editions — 406 copies, 7 reviews
Secret of the Lost Race (1959) — Afterword, some editions — 384 copies, 3 reviews
Time and the Gods [omnibus] (1905) — Introduction, some editions — 358 copies, 10 reviews
Land of unreason (1942) — Introduction, some editions — 354 copies, 5 reviews
Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922) — Introduction, some editions — 341 copies, 3 reviews
Merlin's Ring (1974) — Introduction, some editions — 333 copies, 6 reviews
The High Place: A Comedy of Disenchantment (1923) — Introduction, some editions — 328 copies, 5 reviews
The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907) — Introduction, some editions — 325 copies, 14 reviews
Something about Eve : a comedy of fig-leaves (1927) — Introduction, some editions — 312 copies, 3 reviews
Zothique (1970) — Editor, some editions — 279 copies, 4 reviews
Conan and the Spider God (1980) — some editions — 273 copies
The Well at the World's End: Volume II (1896) — Introduction — 272 copies, 1 review
Don Rodriguez (1922) — Introduction, some editions — 267 copies, 3 reviews
The Book of Wonder (1912) — Introduction, some editions — 266 copies, 7 reviews
The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis (1900) — Introduction, some editions — 265 copies, 8 reviews
The Blue Star (1952) — Introduction, some editions — 250 copies, 7 reviews
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928) — Introduction, some editions — 248 copies, 3 reviews
At the Edge of the World (1970) — Editor — 245 copies, 1 review
The Disciples of Cthulhu (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 221 copies, 1 review
The Hastur Cycle (1993) — Contributor — 219 copies, 2 reviews
Hyperborea (1971) — Introduction — 207 copies, 1 review
Excalibur (1973) — Introduction, some editions — 192 copies, 2 reviews
The New Lovecraft Circle (1996) — Contributor — 188 copies, 2 reviews
The Sundering Flood (1897) — Introduction, some editions — 187 copies, 4 reviews
Beyond the Fields We Know (1972) — Editor — 181 copies, 2 reviews
Over the Hills and Far Away (1974) — Introduction — 169 copies
Magic in Ithkar (1985) — Contributor — 168 copies, 1 review
The Cream of the Jest; The Lineage of Lichfield : Two Comedies of Evasion (1930) — Introduction, some editions — 153 copies, 3 reviews
Poseidonis (1973) — Editor, some editions — 150 copies, 1 review
The Book of Iod (1995) — Contributor — 146 copies, 1 review
The Sorcerer's Ship (1942) — Introduction — 146 copies, 1 review
Shub Niggurath Cycle (1994) — Contributor — 142 copies, 1 review
The Nyarlathotep Cycle (1997) — Contributor — 139 copies
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship (1913) — Introduction, some editions — 136 copies, 3 reviews
The Blade of Conan (1979) — Contributor — 127 copies, 1 review
The Necronomicon (1996) — Contributor — 127 copies, 1 review
The Azathoth Cycle (1995) — Contributor — 125 copies
Conan and the Sorcerer (1978) — Contributor, some editions — 124 copies, 3 reviews
Xiccarph (1972) — Introduction — 123 copies
The Book of Eibon (2001) — Contributor — 114 copies
Magic in Ithkar 2 (1985) — Contributor, some editions — 114 copies
Evenor (1972) — Introduction, some editions — 114 copies
World's Best Science Fiction: 1966 (1966) — Author — 112 copies, 2 reviews
The Night Land Volume 1 (1972) — Introduction, some editions — 109 copies, 3 reviews
The Necronomicon (Chaosium ∙ 2nd Edition ∙ 2008) (2002) — Contributor — 102 copies, 1 review
Mysteries of the Worm (Third Edition) (2009) — Contributor, some editions — 100 copies, 2 reviews
The DAW science fiction reader (1976) — Contributor — 96 copies
The Hastur Cycle, Second Revised Edition (1997) — Contributor — 87 copies, 2 reviews
Double Phoenix (1971) — Introduction — 84 copies, 1 review
Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy (1976) — Introduction, some editions — 84 copies, 2 reviews
Swords against Tomorrow (1970) — Contributor — 70 copies
Warlocks and Warriors (1971) — Contributor — 58 copies, 1 review
Nameless Places (1975) — Contributor — 49 copies, 1 review
Mysteries of the worm : all the Cthulhu mythos stories of Robert Bloch (1981) — Editor, some editions — 43 copies, 1 review
Weird Legacies (1977) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Tindalos Cycle (2009) — Contributor — 31 copies, 1 review
Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak Supernatural Sleuth (2002) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
Warlocks and Warriors (1971) — some editions — 29 copies
Swordsmen and Supermen (1972) 28 copies
Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : Le manoir des roses (1978) — Contributor — 20 copies, 1 review
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre (1961) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy (2012) — Contributor — 16 copies, 1 review
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1957, Vol. 12, No. 4 (1957) — Contributor — 9 copies, 1 review
Fantastic. No. 181 (July 1974) (1974) — Contributor — 8 copies
Verses Dedicatory (1985) — Editor — 7 copies
Der Cthulhu-Mythos 1976 - 2002 (2003) — Contributor — 6 copies, 1 review
Die Götter von Pegana. Fantasy- Erzählungen. (1984) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Savage Sword of Conan #052 (1980) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Savage Sword of Conan #044 (1979) — Contributor — 2 copies
Der Zweifachturm [Kurzgeschichte] (1973) — Author — 2 copies
Wizard and Warrior [Untitled three men sat] (1976) — some editions — 2 copies
Kalki : Studies in James Branch Cabell — Contributor, some editions — 1 copy
Jagd im Land der Schatten [Kurzgeschichte] (1967) — Author, some editions — 1 copy

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Most of these stories didn't age well. This prose is so purple, it's tending into the ultraviolet. Surprised me, I'd like much more in volume 5 from the year before this one. I found the pair at a used book store in 2024.
 
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